Can you keep up? We BARELY can!

This might be a crazy life but it is our life!  We sometimes don't get pictures taken or things documented but we are out there living, experiencing, and making memories.... 

Thursday, April 30, 2009

KIDDIE TIME!!!

Devyn "Marley" showing me she is ready for a puppy!  ha ha!
Playing with the Mac Bubba is really into comic books and wanted to make a picture that looked like one... 
Gram!  The two bigs and one of the smalls ALWAYS fight about who is staying the night with Grandma!  Devyn "Marley" famous quote "mommy I not go with you!  I stay with Granma!"
Kaidyn sweet fairy princess #2 I like the her sweet face in this one but the picture itself is sort of blurry...
CJ!  I have been really practicing my manual focus... I think I am really getting it!
Marley.... So sweet so bad!
I love her eyes in this picture!  She has such a weird, hazel, green, yellow, brown color!

So a lot of people have been asking lately "how the heck are the kids!"  So I thought I would take some time and talk about them a bit.... Groan another mom pumping her children; oh well people, grin and bear it!  :0)
Brenden- is the man!  This guy has been on fire of late!  He is doing so good in school, and he has had quite a year, being in the school play (Wally Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as a head oompa loompa) and working hard mentoring some of the younger kids in his class(he is in a multi age class 1-3) He is really enjoying his new sunday school... had a great season of basketball (scored his first basket of the season yeah!) and is working REALLY hard on his swim strokes!  He has been BEGGING, BEGGING us to put him in martial arts and that will probably be his next activity!  Brenden's real passion is comic books and coming up with new characters the bubba man is really hoping that Wolverine is a lot less gruesome than Batman the Dark Knight was so he can actually see it!  We were talking about what he wants to do when he works for money and he looked me right in the face and said aw mom come one that is so simple I will be a wrestler for the WWE!  Yeah, Bubba all 4'7" 56lbs of you... that translate to an 18 year old 6'3 175 lbs ha ha!  I think that someone has been sneaking out to watch WWE with Daddy on Mondays!  DADDY!  One last thing Brenden is seriously addicted to his daddy!  He was crying yesterday because he thought he would not get to see him at all, they are twins those two they love staying home relaxing on the couch multi tasking between reading their books, watching the big screen, and snacking!  They have a common nickname for each other B.O.P  which means: Buddy Ole Pal.....
Camryn is my other half I turn around she is there!  She loves to be out and about!  She really does not like to spend any time in the house... I love it!  She is my sporty one so far!  She really likes to spend time on her sports she is always dragging me outside to help her practice dribbling, shooting, batting, throwing a ball!  She is also swimming and has scheduled HERSELF :0) for four different basketball camps this summer!  Her and I went and caught 17 Again on Friday it kills me she is growing so fast!  She tries so hard to be good at everything and is always asking me to help her practice something or learn something so she can be the best at it!  She has turned herself into one of the Queen of the Handball courts this year apparently according to her and Bubba it is the biggest activity at recess time so they both are always practicing in the backyard trying to get better!  As soon as she gets up in the morning there are always two phrases that come out of her mouth are "What is for breakfast"  this kid loves breakfast!  and "what are we doing today?"!!!  I can always count on her to be the one that really wants to hang out with mom going to watch games, seeing a movie, playing sports, or simply things like running errands!
Devyn- she would be our BEAST!  Her nickname is sort of becoming Marley after the movie Marley and Me not after the singer... I guess that pretty much says it in a nutshell!  She is crazy this one!  Her new favorite phrase "your killing me...." It just kills me when I hear that!  She is either making me die from laughter or die from frustration!  Her favorite activity right now is tormenting Bubba!  She is relentless on him, poking him, following him, copy him, staging sit ins in his room... Poor guy I keep telling him it is just because she really likes him but he is not really buying into that!  She loves Pet Shop and Pokeman of all things!  She is really into coloring, playing at the park and she really loves going to the arboretum and feeding the ducks!
Kaidyn-  Our perfect baby! ha ha!  She is an amazing little bundle of joy!  She is such a smiley, laughing, kissie baby!  She crawls all over the place, likes to stick her finger in light sockets (wouldn't be a kiernan kid unless she was a little bit mischievous) loves to eat, play patty cake with CJ, be thrown in the air, bounced, twirled she is a daredevil!  She either has a super thresh hold for pain or is just super perfect, we found out last week when I woke up and was changing and cleaning her that she had pus coming out of her ear... took her to the doctor and she had an outer ear infection... the doctor could not believe she had been existing with it for that long without being fussy that is Kaidyn for you the perfect baby!

So we head into this weekend with a lot going on... softball games, bridal showers for auntie, a visit from the tooth fairy(cj lost two teeth this weekend and bubba lost one), sunday school, birthday dinner at grandmas for mommy... you know the typical kind of Kiernan life and really I would not have it any other way!  On the go and loving every part of it!  
I would rather see a sermon everyday than hear one!
Be happy, be positive, have smiles...
Christine or Coach Collins 

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Holy toledo Warrior/Monarch fans has it been that long????

CJ & DJ ALWAYS HANGING OUT...
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAV'S! CJ , JJ, AND DIVA... THESE GIRLS HAVE A LOT OF FUN!
MY HANDSOME BOY AND HIS "BUBBA CUT"
LOOK AT THAT HITTERS STANCE!
KAIDYN SCOUT OUR FAIRY PRINCESS!
RAISE IT TO THE RAFTERS... OUR FIRST MD BANNER!
CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL SEASON.... CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL TEAM!!!

Once again, I hardly know where to begin... I am a knuckle head letting my blog posts lapse soooo long!  Well, I did just finish a nice two week spring break and am back in the saddle again! A lot has happened in a month, we won a CIF championship, we lost a State Regional championship, Camryn is playing softball and kicking a little butt at it too!  Brenden is swimming on the pre comp team getting those strokes down so he can start racing!  Devyn is just crazy, she is challenging us ALL on a daily basis but always being cute with her super Devyn smile!  Kaidyn is just growing, mastering new skills everyday!  She is crawling, growing teeth (she has 4 on the top 2 on the bottom) eating new foods, laughing, loving, living... we should all take notes from her!  She might quite possibly be the best baby ever, I hardly can believe it... I keep waiting for the bottom to drop out with her but she is just consistently pleasant and easy going!
On the Warrior news front, Katie Freeman is getting married May 23 YEAH!!!  Amanda Livingston just got home from Germany last week she had an awesome season playing pro ball overseas and we are looking forward to her coming in and knocking some heads together ha ha! Renee Wood who just finished playing two years of JC ball at Fullerton has signed a letter of intent to play basketball in Nebraska, what an accomplishment!  I will keep you posted on some more Warrior news soon!
On the Monarch news front, Kaleena Lewis made the Parade Magazine first team, that is incredible for a sophomore she was the youngest member selected to the team and the only california player to make the first team!  Kaleena, Jordan Adams and Alexyz Vaioletama have also been invited by USA basketball to tryout for the 16u team... What a HUGE honor and we are so excited for our babies to go out there and ball it up with the best!!!
So I am sort of overwhelmed by what all I should be writing about all the things that have happened in the last month and the activities we have participated in, but well yeah... I think I best just start over from this day on!  I promise, to do better; really, I do!
Be good, have smiles, be happy.... they are all choices and you are in control!
I would rather see a sermon everyday than hear one!
Christine or Coach Collins